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Post Election News
Since Election Night the pundits on Fox and CNN and MSNBC have been furiously pontificating, the Democrats declaring, Well, it’s not really all that bad, and Republicans arguing back the Democrats got drubbed and voters repudiated Obama. But what really happened was a typical odd-year election. President Obama hasn’t ended the…
Read MoreRemain Calm
Democrats got a thumping in Virginia and New Jersey. But they don’t need to take a long walk off a short pier yet. Republicans will be whooping that the party’s over for Obama. With any luck, they’ll proceed on that assumption – and wreck their chances of a real comeback in 2010 and…
Read MoreA Price Production
“The War Room” has a sequel. There is now a film about the 2006 election – “HouseQuake” to go with the classic documentary about Bill Clinton’s 1992 campaign. (I am compelled to insert here that I have a brief role in “The War Room.” I challenge you to find it.) Political junkies in…
Read MoreWillful Ignorance
Recently I was subjected to a speech by columnist-commentator George Will. He courageously took on Washington’s big spending. His implication was that President Obama is the culprit. To his credit, Will did acknowledge that George Bush’s prescription drug benefit – which doesn’t let the government negotiate lower prices – is part of the…
Read MoreThe Mysterious East
Thirty years before Governor Perdue’s trip to Asia, I went with Governor Hunt on the first trip by a North Carolina governor to China. That was not long after the fall of the Gang of Four. We saw “Democracy Wall” in Beijing where people could post and read news. But censorship was still…
Read MoreA Real Peace Prize
It’s scary when Carter and I agree. But he’s right about Afghanistan (see his blog below). President Obama can start earning that Nobel Prize by vetoing General McChrystal’s request for 40,000 more soldiers. History teaches us to respect the courage of American military men and women. The supposed genius of generals – not…
Read MoreToo Good to be True?
We Republicans are dreaming the Grand Political Gift is about to fall into our laps – at last an election is at hand where the national political tides are flowing deep and strong in our favor. The odd thing about it is it took electing Democrats to about every office in Washington – to…
Read MoreFox Baiting
Even liberal pundits criticize the Obama White House for dissing Fox News. They say the President and his team should deal with anybody – even the devil. I disagree. In politics, it helps to have the right enemy. Fox is the perfect enemy for Obama. By spotlighting Fox as the opposition, he…
Read MoreRace and Jimmy Carter
The comic strip Mallard Fillmore – as well as Democrats and Republicans alike – is still beating up on poor Jimmy Carter for speaking the truth about race and President Obama’s critics. Even Bill Clinton piled on. But he’s never been a Carter fan, Carter overstated the case, as he often does.…
Read MoreNorwegians for Obama
It’s hard to fault President Obama for winning the Nobel Peace Prize – after all, he was the first to admit he was as surprised as anyone and, beyond that, he’s giving the money to charity. In the end what else could he do but smile and say, Thank you, politely. There’s also no…
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